Month: May 2023

With Armageddon slated to arrive on or about the first of next month, it seems like a good time to get started with those debt limit negotiations. President Biden, of course, says he won’t bargain over raising the ceiling; only a “clean” increase will do. But the president has also invited House Speaker Kevin McCarthy,
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Display showing Gecko character for GEICO Insurance during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Yun Li | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway shareholders attending this year’s meeting will want to know more about the company Warren Buffett once called his “favorite child” – the auto insurer Geico. With tens of thousands of shareholders in
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The Federal Reserve Bank building Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Federal Reserve raised the target federal funds rate by another 0.25 percentage point on Wednesday. This marks the 10th time the Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate over the past year or so, the fastest pace of tightening since the early 1980s.  Even though the Fed’s rate-hiking
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